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00:00:57There is Lord Charlie Baxter
00:01:0284 years
00:01:20Good to see ya
00:01:32Like I said Lord, here's Charlie Baxter
00:01:3684 years he believed in you, but more than that. He figured you believed in him. He lived his life accordingly
00:01:45Generous to his friends
00:01:47strangers too for that matter a
00:01:50loving man a
00:01:52forgiving man
00:01:56Well
00:01:59I lived in a simpler time. The world wasn't so bent on going to heck. He was a lucky man
00:02:10Amos
00:02:13And you folks might not believe it I've nothing to say
00:02:18Said it all when he was here, I reckon
00:02:21Say the amens brother Jordan
00:02:24In your name we pray Heavenly Father
00:02:27For the eternal peace of Charlie Bankston
00:02:31He's simple cowboy. Amen
00:02:56Oh, it's been a while
00:03:08Girl don't go there again. Just let go of it
00:03:16It's good to see you again Jake
00:03:19Tim
00:03:25You know what once or twice in life
00:03:28If you're real lucky you get the chance to do something bigger and braver than you think you can
00:03:33This may be on them times I speak
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00:03:53Always say make lemonade
00:03:55Little shot of tequila now and then never heard either with or without with
00:04:00Gosh, I have mr. Lemonade
00:04:03Well, that's one thing to miss
00:04:05That's yours on the end there John William. No tequila. No sugar. Just plumb sour. That's like daddy dying to get her home
00:04:14I'm doing something different with my life
00:04:16This way life's never done anything but put people in their graves way ahead of time
00:04:21Your granddaddy's scared the heck out of a whole century. I was thinking more of mama
00:04:36You ever notice how hard it is to impress a fella that owns this many acres of genuine, Texas cow patties
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00:04:45Have missed you right back at you Jake
00:04:51Sure, I've spent a big part of our lives out here on this porch some of the best parts anyway
00:04:59Like old Charlie says used to say the best parts of life are little ones all added up
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00:05:11Care
00:05:13What for it's like I used to
00:05:25Mama
00:05:31Once you just drag me behind the car like a new rope don't go flying off the handle like that will
00:05:37This is Charles Bankston's last will and testament, and we're obliged to honor it
00:05:43Besides the witness that signed off on it sitting right there jump on Amos
00:05:47I imagine he did more than witness it conspires more than like it like it or not will
00:05:53Charlie left his interest to the Dry Creek Ranch to Jacqueline Cooper
00:05:58Jake will you retain your late wife's holdings it all stays in the family family?
00:06:04Took somebody dying to get the girl to set foot back on the place
00:06:08How can I partner up with her when she won't even speak to me well?
00:06:12It was Charlie's idea of a joint venture. No Otis. It was Charlie's idea having the last word you don't we don't know it
00:06:22What are you laughing at I
00:06:24Could draw up a buy-sell agreement. Why don't you just buy out Jake's interest?
00:06:29disgruntled partners do it all the time
00:06:31How about you Jake?
00:06:33Just buy your daddy out. I could draw up the paperwork now you hold on one minute Otis
00:06:38This ain't no business partnership. It's a family not so you notice. Would you stop talking about me like I'm not even here habit I guess
00:06:47It's not for me to tell you how to work this out will
00:06:51Jake
00:06:52But I can't tell you this much
00:06:54aside from whatever else you owe
00:06:57You've got one heck of an inheritance tax breathing down your neck
00:07:02If you folks can't work together, then that's the end of dry Creek I
00:07:10Believe I'll have that special lemonade now Amos. I believe I'll join you
00:07:14You
00:07:29Know we'll really isn't all that hard
00:07:34That's the way I always do not the eggs
00:07:37Life John William you just go down that hall and you wake your daughter up and you tell her
00:07:42And you tell her that you want to talk
00:07:46You sit down on the edge of the bed
00:07:48And you just tell me your side of this and then you shut your mouth while she tells you her side
00:07:53And I'll try little things you know like let her finish a sentence
00:07:58Just go in there and for once try to act like you don't think things always have to be your way or the highway
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00:08:21Ever says breakfast on the table getting cold you're coming
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00:08:51John William
00:08:53Old Charlie didn't set this deal up to provoke another family fight. He was hoping for a family reconciliation
00:09:01That's gonna take you two up
00:09:04Come on. Call it. I don't know how to use that thing
00:09:07Ain't that hard just punch in the number. I don't know where number
00:09:11Well, if you ain't gonna call the girl, maybe you better put your thinking cap on
00:09:16Because this time the bank may not let you roll your note over and play dead
00:09:20They haven't had a problem in a dozen years Amos. Why should they now?
00:09:24Maybe you don't owe the bank enough money
00:09:28Maybe that's the problem
00:09:30You just need to go down to the bank and convince them that they made a terrible mistake
00:09:35By loaning you the money in the first place
00:09:37Strange point of view Amos. Yeah. Well when you ain't the lead dog, that's the point of view you get and that's the work of my headaches
00:09:45This minimum is not doing a bit of good for this old horses leg. I
00:09:49Told you I can stop him headaches and I don't need no minimum. That's funny coming from you
00:09:55You are the headache
00:09:57If you'd only just look Amos she quit on me twice
00:10:01First time eight years ago second time two weeks ago. I'm not calling her
00:10:07I'm not letting you do my banking
00:10:11They're not gonna be any foot rubbing so deal with it
00:10:21Relax Amos bill collectors don't drive fancy cars like that California license plate. I
00:10:29Believe the girl has come home. Why would she be driving a car like that?
00:10:38I
00:10:41Knew it. I knew it. You have to go back and gather up your stuff
00:10:59Billy
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00:11:13Mean you're going
00:11:15What's going on girl?
00:11:17You waltz out of here while I still shoveling dirt on your mom's great
00:11:21And you waltz back in eight years later like nothing ever happened
00:11:25Only something did happen. Did it? Yeah, you're right Billy Charles William Cooper happened. Where's the father?
00:11:33You know
00:11:35Nothing, I ever said that never mattered nothing. I'm gonna say now it's gonna matter. So the way I see it
00:11:40It doesn't really matter. Does it? All right, let's just get this over with then
00:11:44The land's worth little or nothing after five years of drought and taxes
00:11:49Taxes have gone sky-high
00:11:52How's five thousand earnest money while we dicker the details? How about fifty thousand?
00:11:59That is earnest money
00:12:0290 days till closing water mineral rights seller. That's you pays for the environmental study
00:12:09Here's my check for 50,000
00:12:12It's good. Don't worry. You can call the bank
00:12:17Would you get this kind of money how the heck you're gonna get the rest same way I got this work my back up for it
00:12:27Hope you've got some tape you're gonna need it
00:12:31Hey bug
00:12:40You're my grandpa will aren't ya
00:12:44I'm Charles. That's a great grandpa and William. That's a you right mama
00:12:51You can call me Billy
00:12:56Hey, don't do it good to know you
00:13:02I
00:13:05Get him out of the brush back there. I don't need the educated guesses. I mean an accurate count
00:13:09you fellas take the northern pasture and
00:13:12gave an eye
00:13:14We'll take the river section
00:13:21Where you going will
00:13:23If boys can do the count you and me supposed to go up get your co-conspirator to help you out
00:13:27See if she's got it in her
00:13:31Oh
00:13:53You doing
00:13:54Hey, how'd we do?
00:13:56Yeah, oh you just fine you got all the rest you needed hardly any traffic once we got east of Tucson
00:14:27Hey, how you doing
00:14:35Like I always told you will there's a whole lot more to that girl and you've been willing to see I
00:14:43Got a feeling things are gonna get real interesting around here
00:14:47Oh
00:14:54Maybe mama will let you ride lucky. We'll see belly
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00:15:15Take it seems like every time prices are down. We're between a rock and a hard place
00:15:20We've been beat up in the last three auctions
00:15:23Well, look at it like this will we ain't the only ones taking a beating half the brands in the hill country milling around out
00:15:28Yeah, that's true. Come on boy
00:15:33Half those people selling off lands faster selling off cattle sell a thousand acres to save a thousand
00:15:40There you go
00:15:43Cover our feed bill
00:15:45last month
00:15:47Times always changing will
00:15:49Yeah, not on dry creek back up you said anything to Jake
00:15:54Said anything Jake about what Oh
00:15:57Jake, you know ranching stuff heifer stuff bull stuff. We ain't got no money stuff. What are you talking about?
00:16:06Amos just how bad is it?
00:16:12What nobody's gonna answer my question
00:16:15Grandpa Charlie was a heck of a cowboy just wasn't much of a businessman
00:16:19And you are we're starting to work it out, you know, it's a little late to start working this out. Don't you think?
00:16:26Things didn't go to happen when grandpa died
00:16:28They went to heck when you were out on the rodeo circuit six months out of every year
00:16:31Did it ever occur to you that the rodeo winnings is what kept the dry creek afloat through the drought years?
00:16:36You don't think I was out there riding bulls and Bronx for belt buckles. Do you I know what you're thinking
00:16:42prodigal son returns home try to take over
00:16:45Somebody sure as heck has to
00:16:47You know something I wish to gosh you were the prodigal son returning. I'd knock you on the ground right now. I
00:16:55Wish to gosh I was the prodigal son too because I would have knocked you on the ground eight years ago when you unplugged
00:16:59my mama
00:17:04Let's go Billy
00:17:15I
00:17:23Get so lucky I find you I guess you found me huh boy boy it should be
00:17:36There you go spoiling him worth spoiling mama, that's great Billy
00:17:45That is one fine-looking piece of horse flesh
00:17:49What are you gonna do with it? Oh, it's what I've already done with the Mammoth. He's fast. He's a winner
00:17:55Is that so believe it or not? We were building up quite a reputation out on the west coast
00:18:02Lucky running me training. My plan was to use my winnings to set up a training facility with a rehab center for injured horses
00:18:09I was this close. So why'd you walk away from that come back to the hill country?
00:18:14I truly wish I could tell you Amos, but I don't know myself
00:18:19Sure, you do
00:18:28Where did you get this buckle?
00:18:44I
00:19:06Never want you to come in here again. You understand this isn't our stuff
00:19:15I'm not mad at you
00:19:20Okay, I just I want you to understand that this this stuff doesn't belong to us it's his it belongs to grandpa
00:19:30These things are very important to him they're his
00:19:37Sorry mama, I thought tears, too
00:19:44I
00:20:15Was
00:20:18Wait a minute folks looking back lucky is making
00:20:23Good horse wildfire whiskey looking Oh neck-and-neck
00:20:35Black horse has been out of the gate five times folks three wins any place twice
00:20:39Looking back. Lucky is owned and trained. Like I said, that's good horse flesh, honey. You've done good
00:20:45I'll tell you all the people I've ever worked with I've never met anybody who could train a horse like she does
00:20:50She's got some real talent
00:20:52What do you think of your girl's horse? Mr. Cooper? I think that horse must come from some pretty good bloodlines
00:20:58Like the daughter sir
00:21:01You staying around these parts Morgan? Yeah. Yeah, I think I might
00:21:05Check out this hill country viewers. Yeah, the Chamber of Commerce ought to hire your daughter, sir. She's not talking horses. She's talking, Texas, Texas, huh?
00:21:15I
00:21:20Think I'm gonna have to get going it's getting kind of late. Thanks again Morgan for bringing lucky for bringing the video of his last race
00:21:27I know you didn't get a chance to see him before you left and I thought your dad would get a kick out of it
00:21:33There you go, okay
00:21:36It's good to meet you son you come back again, all right come back all the time
00:21:40There's always a side show going on around here. I appreciate that
00:21:45Yeah
00:21:49Well, don't just stand there girl walk the man out to his truck ain't you a liberated woman
00:22:02Forgotten how beautiful this place can be
00:22:05You
00:22:13You better get going
00:22:23Morgan
00:22:27We've been friends for a long time
00:22:30Before I met you I thought it was a pretty good trainer
00:22:34But you taught me that the first thing you teach a horse is to trust you
00:22:42Now does that work for people too
00:23:00I don't get to see you take it easy
00:23:06But I thought you were sticking around what country's pretty big isn't it
00:23:25What did I say anything
00:23:30I know what you're thinking. No Morgan is not Billy's dad
00:23:35No, he's not my boyfriend. No, he's not gonna be my boyfriend either. You know what I was thinking Jake I
00:23:40Was thinking it's standing out here in this moonlight
00:23:44You look just like your mama. I
00:23:48do
00:23:50She always had this certain look in her eye like she knew some secret that me and will were never gonna figure out
00:23:58Oh
00:23:59Me and will used to shovel it at her
00:24:02She loved every minute of it, too. She could dish it back just as good as we could shovel it at her
00:24:08That's not how I remember it Amos
00:24:10Well, it ain't the kind of thing that a little kid can understand
00:24:16You know, you never have really understood just how much they loved each other
00:24:24It's funny how
00:24:26Some people can find so much love how the people just can't get it, right
00:24:36That's Billy's dad
00:24:40Yes, I just gave up on it I don't have the time or energy for that stuff
00:24:47I
00:24:54Loved her roses, didn't she?
00:24:58Your mom pop first got married
00:25:02She planted about a dozen fancy rose bushes
00:25:06They burned in the summer froze in the winter the deer ate him the bugs ate him no matter how hard she tried
00:25:12They always come up looking like a bunch of sticks
00:25:15Roses out here everywhere
00:25:18Well, you see your daddy thought him rose bushes was a pain in the back. So his idea was just to smother him out
00:25:25So when we dug that North stock pond, he took a whole truckload of dirt brought it down here dumped it right on top of them
00:25:31sticks
00:25:32Of course that just happened to be some of the best fertilized dirt in the hill country
00:25:37So nature took its course the next thing, you know
00:25:41Sarah's roses was popping up out of the cow patties
00:25:45The daddy was mad as a hornet, too, but she thought he hung
00:25:53She didn't know he was trying to kill him John William may be ornery
00:25:57He ain't stupid
00:25:59He planted two more long rows for
00:26:05That just happened to be the same year you were born
00:26:10You know
00:26:12If you could turn loose of that anger that pain
00:26:18You might find time and energy for that love
00:26:23I'm telling you
00:26:24If you don't you're gonna need to get a clock and some vitamins if you don't get that stuff, right?
00:26:31Ain't nothing else ever gonna matter
00:26:42I
00:26:57Don't know
00:26:59Wrong with this road, maybe not for you, but I'm not gonna risk exercising like it with these rats in the road
00:27:05What's with the silver
00:27:08I
00:27:10Just want to Billy to see it. Can I ride your grandpa? Can I mama?
00:27:15But you're gonna help me upgrade the road. Sure. You can son
00:27:19All right, and be careful. Take good care of him
00:27:37Oh
00:28:02Hey will that girl sure knew what she was doing she bought that big black horse look at the time
00:28:07Oh
00:28:14Well
00:28:16Cooper I
00:28:18Was trying to track you down all day
00:28:21Well, we've been right here for five generations
00:28:23Should have been that hard. I
00:28:26Heard your daughter was home. That should speed things up
00:28:29Bob Sanchez Sanchez realty out of San Antone and awesome
00:28:33I
00:28:36Condolences on your loss, mr. Cooper
00:28:38But now that mr. Banks has passed on a merit deal is prepared to make more less one last offer
00:28:43And what would that be exactly more or less? Which is it?
00:28:47Yes, Cooper. We're giving you a very fair offer more than fair when you consider the current circumstances in the ranching business and market conditions
00:28:55Mr. Sanchez
00:28:56Are you trying to buy acreage from the Dry Creek? No, miss Cooper
00:29:00We're trying to buy all the Dry Creek land improvements implements livestock
00:29:05But Mary wants the whole operation lock stock and barrel. Well the last time mr. Sanchez the Dry Creek is not for sale
00:29:12It's not going to be for sale
00:29:14It's not going to be divided up into them 10 acre ranchettes and it's not gonna be a tax write-off for some big corporation
00:29:22The truth miss Cooper
00:29:24You can sell or lose it the sale to a merit deal has a lot to offer
00:29:29And it assures the rest of your years will be a lot more comfortable
00:29:37You see that hill right there mr. Sanchez that's known as Liberty Hill
00:29:42Towns named after it a bunch of folks buried up there just happen to be my kin
00:29:48They made it through a lot of different wars
00:29:51Diseases that no one even thinks about anymore drought pestilence the Great Depression
00:29:56They were stewards of the land. They passed it on the care of it the love of it
00:30:01And that's what we're gonna do the girl and me we're gonna pass it on
00:30:06That's the way it works my girl
00:30:08Mr. Cooper
00:30:10will
00:30:11This is a new millennium
00:30:14You got to stop looking back over your shoulder look ahead and you can be hit with an inheritance taxes probably
00:30:2135% of what this whole place is worth
00:30:25Between you and me mr. Sanchez I'd like nothing more than to give it up spend the last of my days in a lap of luxury
00:30:33But between you and me it'd be downright embarrassing to be the only one who didn't I have a little stress
00:30:38I'm not planning on being the one who after five generations
00:30:42Drop the ball. No, sir
00:30:46In the last of your time will Cooper
00:30:50My hands off to you for going down fighting
00:30:54I'll go down your will
00:31:03You better talk some sense into your father's now to lose this place in the back and the tax man and get nothing in return
00:31:10Take care now
00:31:16Tell the truth isn't he we're a little behind on the note
00:31:21Ira Collins down at the bank
00:31:23He's been rolling the dry creeks balloon note over for 10, maybe 12 years. One more rollover is not gonna make a break in more us
00:31:29We'll pay the interest a little on the principal and the tax man. Well, let's pay that off, too
00:31:35And why am I just now hearing about this Jake? I just wanted to spare you spare me. Yeah, don't do me any favors
00:31:41All right. I am my mother's daughter after all
00:31:50I
00:32:20Am
00:32:28All right, they're making it work out in California and work here too you just need to listen to me with an open mind
00:32:36You drive a pickup truck you think of your horses as tools
00:32:39But there is a whole world of people out there who buy those 10-acre ranch heads
00:32:43Drive Lincoln Navigators on semi-annual leases and think of their pleasure horses as big investments. Those people take care of their investments
00:32:51That is where we come in the dry creek training stable and equine rehabilitation center
00:32:59Specifications
00:33:01Oh, I see you talking Amos
00:33:04You're gonna go into hock up to your eyeballs to get out of hock up to your back
00:33:08Right. Now the future of this place is held together the same way as it was in the past with rusted barbed wire and rotted
00:33:14Rubber bands there's room here for a horse operation
00:33:17This has been a cattle operation ever since it started that's the way it's gonna wind up
00:33:22I'm gonna talk to Ira Collins at the bank tomorrow. We'll do what we've always done. It's just that simple
00:33:27You know that might work for you, but sure as heck doesn't work for me
00:33:31Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. There's one thing for sure this time
00:33:36We're not gonna be doing it just your way and for the record. I haven't eaten beef in six years. I'm a vegetarian. I
00:33:44Don't believe in killing animals. I'm into healing them
00:33:47I
00:34:17I
00:34:24Nationwide network of trainers and managers all in desperate need of rehabilitation for their horses
00:34:29That's where the training and rehab facility comes in up and running in 90 days near immediate cash flow
00:34:35Ira you and I both know the cattle markets got no place to go but up and we did all right. We had Angus Herbert cross
00:34:42We just need a little more time to get the mix right and we'll pay off this note once and for all
00:34:47but for now, it sounds like a good plan will but
00:34:51This is now and right now. I can't give you the time not even if you reduce the principal by 50%
00:34:56Look, this is an up-and-coming trend. We time with big restaurant chain. Maybe two we feed and sell
00:35:03Exclusively at a predetermined price per pound. There's no risk in if you would just look at the proposal. Mr
00:35:09Collins, it's all there an integrated and complimentary concept for the horse operation. I'm telling you service the horse lover
00:35:15that is where the money is I
00:35:19Must say I'm impressed very I've never seen a better proforma cash flow analysis on a
00:35:25Horse-ranching operation. It's it's all beautifully laid out. It's all here in black and white. The trouble is I
00:35:32Can't get approval for any additional loan commitments until and unless
00:35:37You make a substantial reduction in the current note. You're already holding our land and improvements as collateral
00:35:43We're far more than what we're asking. Miss Cooper. Jake
00:35:46We're here to talk about the dry creeps current obligations
00:35:50This will work. Mr. Collins. It's cutting-edge. Look girl centerpiece
00:35:57Now you and I have to talk some turkey. I simply came here to roll a note now. Let's get to it
00:36:04Like I said Jake it's all very well thought out no argument and and if you'd had this plan a year ago before
00:36:13I
00:36:22Can't do it well
00:36:25Not this time
00:36:28If I did it for you, I'd have to be doing it for them and we'd all go to heck
00:36:33You me in there. Let's be a darn shame when that I would have to help them
00:36:38Rex over there didn't his daddy do the carpentry work on these teller cages and
00:36:43Fausto his daddy split at the first oil well in Colorado County saved this very bank from going belly-up back in 31
00:36:49Charlie banks in the dry creek. He stayed on the board of this bank served on it till the day he died
00:36:55Them is what made Liberty Hill
00:36:57And I might have kept you in a job for over 25 years. It's not the same Liberty Hill will
00:37:04newcomers aren't farmers or ranchers
00:37:07Times change people change banking changes to keep the pace that will ranching has changed
00:37:19When I married Sarah old Charlie banks to make me make three promises
00:37:25To love that woman with all my heart
00:37:28It's always wear a clean shirt. I can't
00:37:32And to always pay my debts and I'll keep that promise to the day I die
00:37:38I
00:37:41Know we just gotta get through this
00:37:43What do you want me to do? I just tell me just pay it off will
00:37:48It's been do ten times over
00:37:51We're not on the good old boy system anymore
00:37:56Tell me something are that we change you mean
00:38:08With 50,000 buy me happy here
00:38:15120 days
00:38:20No, I
00:38:23Can maybe get you another 90 if I apply it to Prince
00:38:32Got a tape
00:38:38You
00:38:41Well, what did you good old boys come up with
00:38:44We talked it over and worked it out like we always do
00:38:47Put another band-aid on a gushing artery
00:38:49Sounds like a good solid business plan to me
00:38:54You know after all that work I did he didn't really look at it
00:38:57He just sort of dismissed it you you're two of a kind. You know that as for you you
00:39:03Retired you just don't understand the system young lady. I was a good sort
00:39:08He's just stuck between a rock and a hard place like the rest of us
00:39:12It's the biggest junkhead in five counties. If you ask me, I thought you thought I held that honor
00:39:19I've met Ira Collins. You want the post officer to feed store no matter what the bank says. We still got bills to pay
00:39:26Picking up in front of the post office. I'll be the one with his pockets turned inside out
00:39:32Not used to dry creek folk calling ahead their order miss Cooper
00:39:38Jake welcome to the cell phone generation Dabney. We'll get somebody out to load you as fast as we can
00:39:46Your orders all set up Morgan
00:39:49Anything else we can do?
00:39:52Your orders all set up Morgan anything else we can do for you. Yeah, Dabney one more thing
00:40:10Here we go, yeah, give me a second. I'm just making some room here. Hey, let me give you a hand
00:40:17Morgan
00:40:18Hello Jake, what are you doing here? I got bills to pay excuse me
00:40:25Get this truck loaded right up for you
00:40:28Listen if you have it in your head to stick around
00:40:32I'm sure you get a job as a horse trainer somewhere. There's lots of horse ranches
00:40:36I could put in a good word for you. Here you go Morgan
00:40:39We'll keep all the special oats and stock for you from now on you don't really work here. Do you?
00:40:45Yeah, I'll take care of the rest, thanks
00:41:03I'm coming old man. Oh you would not believe what I had to go through to get your dinner
00:41:14Oh
00:41:27I just saw the clock. I saw the light was on. I figured I better come down here and take a look
00:41:36You know
00:41:38Jake
00:41:40I'm gonna want to have a talk with you. Yeah
00:41:43You know, you need to cut yourself some slack
00:41:48Nobody can do it all girl
00:41:51You just take a look around
00:41:54There's some really good things happening here. I
00:41:57Mean your home
00:42:01Billy's a fine little boy
00:42:03And that big old black horse of yours is really something else. He's fast
00:42:08You know the day when you were working him out I thought for a minute my watch was busted
00:42:15Must have set you back a pretty penny. Yeah, I bought him with the money mom left me
00:42:22It's kind of putting all your eggs in one basket in it. It's only a basket I had
00:42:27Side you didn't cost that much didn't come from champion bloodlines
00:42:32Nobody believed him, but me
00:42:35I figure lucky is my ticket to the promised land
00:42:42You know Jake it's awful lonely in that promised land by yourself
00:43:05It's hard to imagine all you've been saying from a horse with no bloodlines
00:43:10Can I help you gentlemen?
00:43:12Here's the real reason why he's a winner Jake Cooper horse trainer extraordinaire Jake like you meet Alex Kerwin
00:43:18Rio Bajo farms over in Travis County
00:43:20Mr. Kerwin ever since Morgan and I partnered up. I've heard nothing but amazing things about you and your horse
00:43:26I just had to see for myself
00:43:29partners
00:43:30That's fast. Well, I've been needing someone like Morgan for a long time
00:43:34I know first-class when I see it we train breed and sell and of course
00:43:39I'm always on the lookout for buying the right horse. Yeah, I'm familiar with Rio Bajo farms, but I need to let you know
00:43:46Mr. Kerwin lucky is not for sale. He's already been in the winner circle more than once
00:43:51What Morgan means is the really big inner circle?
00:43:56Now maybe we can work something out the three of us
00:43:59With Morgan being trainer running under my silks splitting the profits you do trust Morgan. I'm sure excuse me
00:44:09You should have known better than to bring him here
00:44:12Jake we never even talked about lucky being for sale until he took a look at him
00:44:16I only brought him here because because he's got the money and you have the time and I have neither right your little
00:44:21Partnership looks like I could solve all my problems. Is that it? Well
00:44:25Exactly miss Cooper exactly Alex
00:44:30We've seen what we've come here to see
00:44:34Miss Cooper, you know Morgan I can fight my own battles. I
00:44:42Didn't bring Alex here to make her off on lucky he's seen the videos. He took one look at him
00:44:46He knew he was a winner. That's his business
00:44:48I brought him here because I wanted him to meet the amazing woman
00:44:52It took a no-blood line skittish cult and turn them into a winner
00:45:03Fine saddle here
00:45:22I
00:45:28Must be tougher than I thought this ain't that much for crap
00:45:44You want to go play Billy you can't stay where I can see you, okay
00:45:49Remember Billy stay where I can see you
00:45:53Oh
00:45:55Right Chandra's the hottest item at this auction
00:46:07Jack
00:46:15You're the spitting image your mom
00:46:19Where you've been keeping yourself, oh, I've been around Wow
00:46:2560 years of hard work to the highest bidder. Oh, well pay my taxes for one more year
00:46:33Afternoon Jake
00:46:35Mrs. Stone Morgan Murphy, I know Morgan here. He's been helped me all morning to get this organized. Oh
00:46:45Excuse me dears
00:46:48I
00:46:52That's my kind of woman
00:46:56Kind of stones my kind of woman trouble is they make darn few of them like that anymore
00:47:03Sure making yourself at home here in Liberty Hill place begin to grow up some nice people
00:47:10Here we go folks the prize of the whole shebang one of a kind
00:47:16What we have here is a classic folks
00:47:18It's one of a kind up at this beauty's a hundred years old if it's a day Hannah Hannah stone
00:47:22Am I right Sam's granddaddy built it. You heard it folks now Sam's daddy built
00:47:28Granddaddy Sam's granddaddy built it. I'm sorry Sam's granddaddy built it. All right, Randy
00:47:34Let's get this show on the road now
00:47:35You heard the lady folks this hundred year plus desk solid pecan wood is beyond price
00:47:41Well, let's see if we get close to something fair for today
00:47:43All right
00:47:44Who wants to start us out who what do you want to give for it who go?
00:47:47$300 who go $300 $300 who go forward why here $4 bid not for yet now who go five who go five?
00:47:52Why are five hundred dollars five anybody five anywhere? Oh, come on now folks now
00:47:57We're trying to help a lovely lady give the government its due
00:48:00They need it more than we do
00:48:03Now who go five hundred one time who go five who go five hundred now who go six?
00:48:07That's the spirit who go six hundred one time right Zachary Justin in the back now. We're cooking. Let's go seven
00:48:11We don't want that tax man to win now do we folks who go seven hundred one time seven or not?
00:48:14Who go wait, do I hear eight eight anywhere?
00:48:16Oh now folks, you won't find another like this in all of Texas or in all the world
00:48:21Native pecan wood and I need $800 now who go eight one time who give me eight who will be $800 bid now folks
00:48:28You know that this here is a jewel this one sets the pace
00:48:31Now do we come here day to raise money or just eat barbecue?
00:48:34I'm talking to you Randy. You still got sauce in your mustache. Now. Let's go wait her one time
00:48:38We'll go 800 who got cold Jordan in the back right now
00:48:40Who go back right here nine anybody nine anywhere do I hear eight going once eight hundred going twice one thousand
00:48:48$1,000 does that you will Cooper? Yeah
00:48:511,000 now going once 1,000 going twice. Come on folks. Let's get a little bit up higher to saddle. Shall we make it 1,200 $1,200?
00:48:59Anybody gonna top that anybody anywhere she's sold right there to Will Cooper for $1,200. Thank you
00:49:05Well now I'll make a nice desk for sitting down right now check to pay those bills in a month
00:49:09Won't it now folks? You give us just a minute. We'll have line item 126 up here for you
00:49:16$1,200 that's money we could use we don't need a desk
00:49:21Jacob you don't know what just happened here. You got farther to go than I thought
00:49:24All right
00:49:27You ladies need a beer
00:49:47Amos we ought to sort out all this old equipment sell off anything. We're not using we should have an option
00:49:53Maybe find out that trophy saddle mines worth anything. You know will what you did for Hannah was mighty fine
00:49:59You need to remember no good deed goes unpunished
00:50:03we just have to
00:50:10Put one foot in front of another
00:50:12Oh
00:50:18Where this come from
00:50:21Smiling Sam's used cars. Where's your little purple love machine?
00:50:26Smiling Sam's used cars
00:50:28We have bills to pay
00:50:43Oh
00:51:05What in the world are you doing acupuncture
00:51:09My dad will cure him he's old, but I'll give him some relief at this point
00:51:15That's all that can be done besides hydrotherapy. I can't pull that off here
00:51:30Oh
00:51:36Come on grandpa read again
00:51:39Don't have to read it. I got it memorized by now
00:51:42Please just not sleepy. Are you?
00:51:46Let me see I think I think I got the trick
00:51:50I
00:52:04Look for something Billy grandpa. What are you looking for?
00:52:12Let's close your eyes, it's a surprise
00:52:15Surprise
00:52:19Okay
00:52:21Long long time ago. He was your mama's
00:52:23Now he's yours
00:52:25His name's buddy since you're gonna be up all night
00:52:29Maybe you and him could talk things over get to know each other
00:52:34Come on hop in bed
00:52:36The both of you
00:52:38You
00:52:43Did you talk mom about when she's little
00:52:47Not often enough Billy
00:52:49Is that why she's a match you now?
00:52:53No, sir. It's a bunch more complicated than that
00:53:04I'm not magic grandpa. I
00:53:07I love you
00:53:11Good night, sir
00:53:36I didn't know you were oh, yeah, just finishing up on it quits after I balance my checkbook
00:53:57Here you go little buckaroo you finish those I'll give you some more
00:54:00Okay, your great-grandpa used to say waste not want not easy. It's all the syrup we get
00:54:06Got to think about it folks. That's a novel concept coming from you. Just what's that supposed to mean?
00:54:12check oh
00:54:14Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. If that check was for the buy-sell agreement
00:54:18I was buying you out. Remember you cash the check. I don't ever remember us coming to an agreement. Let me coffee
00:54:25Really don't you take one of Amos's biscuits, but he bear got Saturday on the porch
00:54:36My grandpa Charlie said it's a partnership
00:54:39You put in $50,000. I put in a lifetime of blood and sweat. I'd say that makes us partners
00:54:45That money bought family 90 days at the bank
00:54:48That money bought family 90 days at the bank
00:54:54Family discuss matters they talk about their thoughts and their ideas
00:54:59their problems
00:55:01I bought us 90 days Jake you bought us 90 days with my money
00:55:06That's a decision. We probably should have made together
00:55:09Yeah, you have not changed at all in eight years
00:55:13If you were just for one stop and listen
00:55:19At this time of the morning, who is it really just sitting there told me to find my grandpa, excuse me
00:55:36Ira
00:55:38Morning, Will. I
00:55:40Couldn't bring myself to knock it being so early
00:55:44You look like you just run over your favorite cat dog
00:55:48what's happen I
00:55:51Should have called you last night, but I couldn't make myself do it. What's wrong?
00:56:00They let me go well
00:56:0325 years and they let me go
00:56:07They can just do that
00:56:10Yeah, I you know, I get the pension and all but it wasn't my choosing
00:56:15And
00:56:17Neither was the other will I
00:56:21Told him it was a promise. I told him we had a deal
00:56:26Northern Lights bank shares is calling the note on the dry creek
00:56:34I'm sorry, Will
00:56:40You want some breakfast are
00:56:45Come a long way to get out here
00:57:06I know just what you mean my grandson
00:57:09I
00:57:11Rain can you tell me who took over Ira Collins job? Well, that'd be mr. Wainwright Jack Wainwright from Seattle
00:57:17Where can I find him? Well, he's in the loan committee meeting with all the yet. Mr. You can't go in. Mr. Cooper
00:57:23What we have to focus on this quarter is moving our non-producing loans out of the portfolios. I
00:57:29Had a feeling I'd find you here Sanchez
00:57:32We'll talk later, but right now I'm looking for Jack Wainwright and you would be Will Cooper Dry Creek Ranch. Ah, mr. Cooper
00:57:40Well, if you'll just wait
00:57:42I signed over a check for $50,000 in return. I was promised 90 days grace to sell off stock and pay a note
00:57:49Now what happened to my 50,000 dry Creek Ranch? Yes duly applied to the balance of the loan a past due loan and
00:57:57Insufficient to cover that loan
00:58:00We've decided as a committee to call the note. Well, what happened to my 90 days?
00:58:05What happened to five generations of honest work and trust trust on both sides? Mr. Collins had no authority to accept those conditions
00:58:13Mr. Collins did not and does not represent Northern Lights bank shares
00:58:18Your note has been called and yours isn't the only one who made that call you
00:58:22Or was it Sanchez over there or Sanchez over there?
00:58:26Or some outfit called a Mara crook. No, mr. Cooper. The decision came from Seattle
00:58:32Now if you'll just dry Creek is gonna be cut up and sold off for 10 times 20 times. What's owed?
00:58:39Mr. Wainwright
00:58:40That gives bank robbery a whole new meaning
00:58:45Disposal of the property will be Seattle's decision and here's my
00:58:49You
00:58:52Send that on to Seattle you're in Texas now, mister. I'm really sorry, ma'am. We'll talk later Sanchez
00:59:19Oh
00:59:31Seattle pull the plug we are to pay the note or they'll call the collateral which means means
00:59:38Just about done in
00:59:40Got our work cut out for us. Yes, sir. Where do we start?
00:59:45First we call the breeding stock
00:59:48And then we find a buyer for the rest get the best price we can
00:59:53Then we flush out and round up every head of stock on the place and pray
01:00:00Amos your horse needs a ride. I believe he does
01:00:14I
01:00:44I
01:01:14Oh
01:01:44I
01:02:04Girl Jake you ain't lost your touch
01:02:14Oh
01:02:44Oh
01:03:05How'd it go boss good enough better get back out there
01:03:14Oh
01:03:44Oh
01:03:58That's close enough well not by a long shot
01:04:02Our tallies match close enough pulling but I'm gonna be a lot shorter on a head count that I made not more than two
01:04:07weeks ago
01:04:14I
01:04:34Can't say I'm a bit surprised
01:04:36Disappointed but not surprised
01:04:39Charlie used to say nothing done in a hurry is ever done, right?
01:04:43We're way short here Jake you give me some more time
01:04:47I might be able to have to throw in the breeders to even come close Amos. Well jingle bells John
01:04:52We what are we gonna have left in a heck of a collection of cow patties?
01:04:56We're not gonna have anything left to build on what good is land without stock a good stock without lamb
01:05:02What a Charlie's daddy had when he started
01:05:04A
01:05:06Rumor was about two dozen head of Russell heifers and a bully barred from somebody whose name he couldn't recollect
01:05:11We got your checks in as we weigh that last year loads me tomorrow. We load up the breeding stock
01:05:17And the bull pasture
01:05:19Are you sure that's almost like the end of the trail you heard him?
01:05:24Load him up
01:05:25Let's have to make a new trail
01:05:34We
01:05:47This was Sarah's favorite spot glad she didn't see this
01:06:00What are we celebrating I don't know
01:06:05The end of everything. Well, let's have us a drink to pessimism
01:06:10Maybe the beginning they take the ranch. We're not to make any more payments on the note. I pay my debts
01:06:16Well, here's to darn fools and pessimists
01:06:19Oh
01:06:28Billy get in the cab of the truck. I get him. Looks like it's moving pretty fast. I get down the barn
01:06:40That was too close
01:06:46The barn
01:06:49Oh
01:06:51Famous call County Fire
01:06:55Hang on Billy
01:06:57Hang on
01:07:03So we got a lightning strike dry Creek Rancho County Road, we got our barn on fire
01:07:19Oh
01:07:28Stay put
01:07:41Stay in the truck don't move. Okay
01:07:44I know I know baby. I'm gonna get him. I promise you stay here
01:08:08Calm down, buddy
01:08:13Oh
01:08:43All right, lock him in if you have to
01:09:13Oh
01:09:15Oh
01:09:41Come on
01:09:45Oh
01:10:15Oh
01:10:35Look at that
01:10:38One that San Antone July 72
01:10:42All right, well, that's a darn fool move John William you could have polished it up
01:10:50Fourth of July rodeo, right? Yes, ma'am
01:10:53Here I was born
01:10:55How's that supposed to know you born we girlie?
01:10:58What about all my other birthdays?
01:11:01You know fourth of July it's a big rodeo purse
01:11:05We sent you a present didn't I I want your presents right wanted you to be around like a father
01:11:12It's one thing I always said when I had Billy least I'd be around for him
01:11:15You know why that buckle meant so much to me. It's the hardest ride I ever took
01:11:18I spent all my time thinking about your mom. I have it my baby you all right
01:11:23So both of you just shut the heck up. I
01:11:26Swear heads as hard as green pecans
01:11:29You know, I spent most of my life right here working dry Creek
01:11:33And I'm doing what I love and I feel like a mighty lucky man, but ranching ain't no easy business
01:11:38It ain't for the faint of heart. You work the good times as well as the bad
01:11:42You're big help if you don't need much sleep. You must don't get your blood in the ball
01:11:45You know John William living with you ain't always been no better roses. I
01:11:50Understand it hard times and burying people you love can make a man tough
01:11:54But this girl's aching inside and she's been given all she's got to help us
01:11:58And what do you do?
01:11:59You keep cutting her off at the knees and as for you Jake you ought to understand by now that your daddy's done more with
01:12:06Less than any other man around these parts rodeos and all don't you know dies a little bit every time you yeah
01:12:13Both of you you two of a kind don't you hardheads get it what happens to all this don't matter
01:12:19What happens to this is what matters family? That's all there really is
01:12:29Oh
01:12:36Over here fella
01:12:50He's out of ICU he's in room 104 now you can stick your head in the door, but only stay a minute
01:12:58Oh
01:13:17You hard-headed old peckerwood you almost let yourself in I don't get so riled up
01:13:24Please name us wake up. I ain't got anybody to talk to
01:13:33You uh
01:13:37I hate this place I
01:13:42Can't remember worst day besides day lost there
01:13:47Besides day lost there
01:13:51Girl says some pretty awful things to me that day
01:13:56Such a hate hate till the day I die
01:14:00How'd it all come to that?
01:14:03How the heck did it all come to that?
01:14:09Grandpa Charlie he went numb that day too
01:14:11I
01:14:15Didn't want to say goodbye to this baby girl
01:14:21I had to do I had to take off this dirty sheet
01:14:30Sour is never gonna come back not being Sarah yet
01:14:37On this world
01:14:42I couldn't just let her later
01:14:50One anyway, I could talk to you, but I didn't want her carrying a load of that decision
01:14:59You know I never thought I wound up losing the both of them that day my wife and my daughter
01:15:07Please wake up famous the good Lord didn't bring us as far as to drop a sore P hands
01:15:37Oh
01:15:56They think it was a stroke maybe mild and he's still partially sedated
01:16:07Figure
01:16:08laid-back Amos
01:16:11Having a stroke. Maybe I'll shake it off a lot of people do
01:16:17Yeah
01:16:19We won't know anything for 24 hours or so how about you you okay?
01:16:31I
01:16:33Don't have any more
01:16:38I
01:16:40Say you do
01:17:02Irene
01:17:05Morning will Cooper I heard about the fire, and I hope Amos is gonna be all right
01:17:09I'm looking for that fellow Wainwright. He's out at the office at a meeting will all right. Where do I find Sanchez?
01:17:16Well, mr.. Sanchez does an office here at the bank. Will is there anybody here that actually runs the place?
01:17:25Well is there I believe that's you will what's me your cell phone. It's ringing. I don't know
01:17:35It belongs to Amos answer for me. Will you hey hello?
01:17:45It's the hospital will for you
01:17:49Will Cooper
01:17:55Thank goodness you're here mr. Cooper. How serious is it Barry?
01:17:58You've done everything we know how
01:18:00How long has this been going on most of the morning? It's getting worse
01:18:04William Cooper it's about time you've got here now you tell this jailor here. You give me back my pants cuz we're going home
01:18:11Absolutely out of the question bed rest and monitoring is what was ordered your test will be back
01:18:15I still love beast up a you heard the lady Amos turn around get back into bed
01:18:20Before this goes from serious to worse worse you mean as in dying
01:18:24No no no if you got a feeling somebody needs to do that you do the honors cuz I'm figuring on sticking around for another
01:18:3020 years or so just to make people like you and her miserable now. Give me my pants
01:18:35You know what could kill a felon laying around in that bed back there hard as rocks count the ceiling tiles. I will
01:18:42I'm going home. You get me my britches, or I'm going like this wouldn't do to have his back waving in the breeze
01:18:48Get the man his pants. I'm getting the doctor. Yeah, you do that. Maybe he knows who stole my britches
01:18:55You know when I was up there in that coma I had the strangest dream I dreamt she was rubbing my feet
01:19:02I'm worried about you. How many fingers you see I ain't counting fingers
01:19:06What happened to Jake? I don't know
01:19:09One minute she's staying in a hospital room door next minute. She's gone. It's like before
01:19:14We're on a parking lot in her old truck. Just wasn't there well. They'd like she just took off
01:19:25I
01:19:29Wanted to die to stay in the hospital well, we're blazing this fool think he's going in such a hurry
01:19:35Looks like you don't get a chance to ask him. He's turning in a dry Creek
01:19:54Oh
01:20:14What the heck's going on here
01:20:18Jake can't sell this place out for money. No I couldn't and I wouldn't
01:20:24Somebody tell me what's going on here?
01:20:26Amos who let you out of the hospital I let myself out Jake when you fellas want to answer his question by Gonsby by Gons
01:20:32Mr.. Cooper
01:20:34Congratulations
01:20:35Congratulations for what it's gonna be a big boost for Liberty Hill the county and the whole hill country
01:20:40Northern Lights Bank sure is glad to be a part of it what you're looking at mr.
01:20:43Cooper is phase one of the dry Creek training stables an equine rehab center
01:20:48And I am proud to be part of it Jake you want to tell your daddy what these guys are talking about
01:20:53It's my dream coming true
01:20:59Hey lucky, here's how this is gonna work
01:21:02You gotta go run your race
01:21:07We can do this buddy together we can all do this
01:21:14Let me take them be happy
01:21:17To the honors
01:21:21Come on
01:21:29We're gonna rebuild the barn I had some new stables right over there. That's where the new hydrotherapy pool is gonna go
01:21:35Morgan called mr.. Kerwin. He's agreed to be our financial partner put up seed money
01:21:40For the next two years lucky runs under his silks
01:21:44Once his winnings, and he will win cover our nut he comes back and races for the dry Creek
01:21:49When his racing days are over he comes home
01:21:52And his bloodlines start here where it belongs
01:21:56This has always been the cattle ranch
01:21:59You better get your premium beef scheme up and running hot Eddie
01:22:04South pasture still has 50 head left. We're keeping half the breeding stock and both
01:22:14Okay, I'll use your horse for us the afternoon Zachariah is yours to come on big fella
01:22:22Morgan look after Billy wait Jake, and I got some work to do
01:22:28Jake let's go for a ride
01:22:36Take a look at the gates
01:22:39Check that old water tank
01:22:42Do a count of all those bulls you're talking about then you can explain to your daddy how this is all gonna work out
01:23:04Like old Charlie Bankston always said cowboying is hard work from before daylight to way past dark
01:23:11Not enough money to write home about but the thing is it gets in your blood
01:23:16Of course you do have to keep up with the times
01:23:20Do it right and you spend every day doing something you love and not many folks can say
01:23:41You
01:24:11You
01:24:41You
01:25:11You
01:25:41You